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and we've heard president obama talk about this again and again. there will be enormous consequences if this is a red line. but it looks to me like it's still a rather gray line. what you hear is it's got to be a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or today, a systematic use of chemical weapons. they definitely -- gwen: hearing all these caveat phrases. >> he does not want to go into syria. he does not want to own syria because he knows very well what will happen if syria is suddenly our war. >> the attacks were described as small scale. the chemical attacks. what does that mean and what -- i don't understand what sarin gas does and where it ranks in terms of chemical weapon use on people. >> it's a nerve agent. first of all. it basically paralyzes you. and suffocates you very quickly. if you have it in large doses. small scale attacks, they looked at two attacks. one of them, i know i believe was in -- in aleppo and about 30 people died. and the other is believed to be in damascus. and i think about the same number of people. so that's w
and we've heard president obama talk about this again and again. there will be enormous consequences if this is a red line. but it looks to me like it's still a rather gray line. what you hear is it's got to be a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or today, a systematic use of chemical weapons. they definitely -- gwen: hearing all these caveat phrases. >> he does not want to go into syria. he does not want to own syria because he knows very well what will happen if syria is...
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. >>> we begin with tough talk on syria from president obama. the president responding to new evidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people. is there enough evidence to act? reen th reena ninan joins usy washington. >> reporter: the president's comments were loaded with caveats. calling the assessment preliminary. one source telling me overnight, will is so much uncertainty, who fired what and at whom. what is the motivation. these are key questions. >> if it is established, that syria was using chemical weapons against their own people, what are the options that the white house has to do? >> reporter: there are no good options, really. military action in syria is something that the white house has wanted to avoid. the focus is on the intelligence picture. we have no public eyewitness accounts of the government firing shels with chemicals at the citizens. the white house is cautious but insisting all options are on the table. >>> new threats from north korea in morning. they say they'll soon put an american on trial
. >>> we begin with tough talk on syria from president obama. the president responding to new evidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people. is there enough evidence to act? reen th reena ninan joins usy washington. >> reporter: the president's comments were loaded with caveats. calling the assessment preliminary. one source telling me overnight, will is so much uncertainty, who fired what and at whom. what is the motivation. these are key questions....
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for power within obama administration sent american foreign policy into retreat making country look less engaged. joining us now, best selling author of brand-new book "the dispensable nation." vali nasr, welcome, we recommend your book. the need to stop leading militarily, you and i a having this conversation to day that president talks about game changers and red lines once again in syria and rhetori rhett continues. what is going on here? >> well preside laid down a red line if syria uses chemical weapon then u.s. will get involved in the conflict, syria -- there severed tha there is ea has done so, if america does not do anything, it is about our credibility. our willingness to enforce our red line, we're not doing so that would impact our standing. lou: our standing is already i guess, suspect, given all developments. we have watched the obama drama, if you will with north korea recede from headlines with boston bombing, we have now watching a president recede from his red line deck l declarationa number of months iran remains a in middle east, where is this leading us? >> mess
for power within obama administration sent american foreign policy into retreat making country look less engaged. joining us now, best selling author of brand-new book "the dispensable nation." vali nasr, welcome, we recommend your book. the need to stop leading militarily, you and i a having this conversation to day that president talks about game changers and red lines once again in syria and rhetori rhett continues. what is going on here? >> well preside laid down a red line...
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keeps talking about. why does the u.s. say there is a read line on these issues? tens of thousands have been killed in the war. why a red line on this. >>. >> because if there was an incident or a massive attack, chemical weapons are used and 5,000 people die, or even 200 or 400 or 600 people die, and this is the first recognized use of chemical weapons against a civilian population in a decade and half, and there is no response, then you are encouraging every regime in the world that what is these horrible weapons to use them. this is the danger. that president, because he put this red line out there, could make himself look weak. could make the united states look weak. and could encourage others to use these things. >> right. >> that if you use the weapons and there is no response, then assad could feel em boldened. i can do this more and more. maybe his trial balloon, if you will. seems ridiculous to use a trial balloon like that. imagine, just to make an acorn size one and throw it at the world. >> an
keeps talking about. why does the u.s. say there is a read line on these issues? tens of thousands have been killed in the war. why a red line on this. >>. >> because if there was an incident or a massive attack, chemical weapons are used and 5,000 people die, or even 200 or 400 or 600 people die, and this is the first recognized use of chemical weapons against a civilian population in a decade and half, and there is no response, then you are encouraging every regime in the world...
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. >> you're going to be talking to secretary napolitano, who still maintains, as does the obama administration, that for example, the fort hood shooting was a workplace act of violence. not an act of terrorism. they're very quick to talk about lone wolves and self-radicalized people, bin laden's dead. is there a mentality here that radical islam is downplayed and dismissed, leading to a sense of complacency perhaps within the government? >> i certainly think that because it had been so long since 9-11, everyone would like to be moretaehat terrorism is not out there and that we don't have radical jihaddists, but we absolutely do around the world. so we have to remain vigilant. we have to make sure that citizens are working closely with law enforcement and that our agencies are talking and sharing and doing everything we can to make sure that we are finding the terrorists in our midst and abroad and we can't ignore and we have to -- we have to cooperate fully and with specifically law enforcement agencies around the globe as well. this is a global network of terror, but we need to insure we find
. >> you're going to be talking to secretary napolitano, who still maintains, as does the obama administration, that for example, the fort hood shooting was a workplace act of violence. not an act of terrorism. they're very quick to talk about lone wolves and self-radicalized people, bin laden's dead. is there a mentality here that radical islam is downplayed and dismissed, leading to a sense of complacency perhaps within the government? >> i certainly think that because it had been...
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we will talk about what that would actually mean in a bit. first i want to share the three awesomist things on the internet today. beginning with a cool feature from the new york times. yes, scott fitzgerald novel, coming up with a film and the book is currently topping the amazon best seller list. the marketing of the book has the gatsby lovers up in arms. it is probably a good thing he is not around to see the film. barnes & noble will sell both editions and wal-mart will only sell the book with leo on the cover. perhaps that book seller just needs a reminder of last year's best seller. second awesomist thing -- by the way, that cover is awesome. second thing, a twitter trend that reached a whole new level. as salon puts it, anything and everything that is even the slightest potential to become a mean will get its own twitter account. case in point, clint eastwood's rnc speech to an empty chair. when senator tom coal vert announced he was tired of shaving his beard and and he launched his own twitter account. with a great discussion on terr
we will talk about what that would actually mean in a bit. first i want to share the three awesomist things on the internet today. beginning with a cool feature from the new york times. yes, scott fitzgerald novel, coming up with a film and the book is currently topping the amazon best seller list. the marketing of the book has the gatsby lovers up in arms. it is probably a good thing he is not around to see the film. barnes & noble will sell both editions and wal-mart will only sell the...
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talk to us a little bit and quickly about the inconsistency here in the obama administration. they went into libya where there was no slaughter taking place and based it on a doctrine of responsibility to protect innocent civilians. in syria, you have an actual slaughter taking place. no action by the administration. i'm not arguing either way. i'm just saying this is a gross inconsistency. >> i think that it would be a misjudgment of president obama to say that he is not capable of using deadly force. the whole drone war would prove otherwise. i think we have to understand that in benghazi, we were dragged into that war simply to oust gadhafi and in syria, there are elements from outside syria, from a number of different countries that are fomenting the war there to try to knock out assad or keep the war going to debilitate assad and somehow adversely affect iran. so there is politics being played which are very deadly. the administration has to be very careful here. i think they know one thing and they better know it, and that is that i don't think the american people are go
talk to us a little bit and quickly about the inconsistency here in the obama administration. they went into libya where there was no slaughter taking place and based it on a doctrine of responsibility to protect innocent civilians. in syria, you have an actual slaughter taking place. no action by the administration. i'm not arguing either way. i'm just saying this is a gross inconsistency. >> i think that it would be a misjudgment of president obama to say that he is not capable of using...
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obama said today he will act prudently and deliberately before taking action. david martin has been talking to his sources and he joins us now from the pentagon. david, the president says the evidence is preliminary. what more is needed? >> well, to make an airtight case you need fresh samples collected by inspectors at the scene of an alleged chemical weapons attack. a 15 man team of chemical experts from the united nations is standing by in cypress ready to go into syria to do just that but they haven't been allowed in. and the head of the team has been recalled to new york. so that leaves it to intelligence agencies to find, collect, and analyze more evidence. and the president said today they would be devoting more resources to do that. >> pelley: what is the evidence they have now? and how reliable is it? >> well, it's blood and tissue samples that were smuggled out of syria and analyzed at labs in the u.s. and britain, and found to show exposure to the nerve agent sarin. however those samples had passed through many different hands before they reached u.s
obama said today he will act prudently and deliberately before taking action. david martin has been talking to his sources and he joins us now from the pentagon. david, the president says the evidence is preliminary. what more is needed? >> well, to make an airtight case you need fresh samples collected by inspectors at the scene of an alleged chemical weapons attack. a 15 man team of chemical experts from the united nations is standing by in cypress ready to go into syria to do just that...
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let's go now to washington, and president obama in his weekly address today talking about those big sequester cuts and how congress quickly moved to bring furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job. the furloughs by the faa had caused airport delays across this country. well, here's the president's take today. >> this week, the sequester hurt travelers who were stuck for hours in airports and on planes and arightly frustrated by it. and maybe because they fly home each weekend the members of congress who insisted on these cuts finally realized that they actually apply to them, too. >> nbc's white house correspondent kristen welker is at the white house for us. with a good saturday morning to you, kristen. i know the white house has been calling this a band-aid since the senate passed it on thursday night. so, will the president sign it once it hits his desk? >> hey, good morning, alex. and welcome to d.c. always great to have you here. you know, despite calling it a band-aid he is expected to sign this legislation in to law. and it stands to wonder how is he going to have leverage to
let's go now to washington, and president obama in his weekly address today talking about those big sequester cuts and how congress quickly moved to bring furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job. the furloughs by the faa had caused airport delays across this country. well, here's the president's take today. >> this week, the sequester hurt travelers who were stuck for hours in airports and on planes and arightly frustrated by it. and maybe because they fly home each weekend the...
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frome house delegation massachusetts talks about the boston marathon bombings after that, president obama reports syria that may have used chemical weapons. tomorrow, retired air force colonel discusses the next steps for the u.s. and its allies concerning syria. >> i said, i'm here to report reads the guard came up and said i knew one of your campaign managers in ohio. the guardn there, and said, you have some hate mail. it was from california and massachusetts. they gave me the mail. -- thethrough this stripped down. i got into the intake, walked into prison. down into the courtyard. i uset use the language in the book. they tell me to get away from him. i don't know where to go. another prisoner said, where is your escort yucca -- escort? as said, i don't know. he took me the back way of the laundry room. a man is sitting there saying, are you the congressman? i used to be. he says, you are a republican, aren't you. >i said, republicans put me in here you know. he said, i am the mayor of east cleveland. i will get you some closed. sunday atob ney 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." the house voted
frome house delegation massachusetts talks about the boston marathon bombings after that, president obama reports syria that may have used chemical weapons. tomorrow, retired air force colonel discusses the next steps for the u.s. and its allies concerning syria. >> i said, i'm here to report reads the guard came up and said i knew one of your campaign managers in ohio. the guardn there, and said, you have some hate mail. it was from california and massachusetts. they gave me the mail. --...
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mentioned planned parenthood for times and talked about are lifesaving work. but the interesting thing is that evening his message went beyond talking to dependence and the folks that were falling the back-and-forth of the political campaign. it actually reached millions of ordinary americans because just a few days later there was a woman that showed up at a planned parenthood health center in houston texas. i'm glad all of you are here today. [applause] so this is the story. had been years since she had an exam and she found a lump in her breast she didn't know where to go. the physician said who referred you? she said i heard president obama say on tv that i could get an exam and planned parenthood. [applause] we are so proud to partner with the president to change the lives of millions of women in this country. we are proud to stand with him, and today we are so proud to be standing with us. please join me in welcoming the president of the united states, barack obama. ♪ thank you. [applause] thank you very much. thank you, everybody. thank you. [cheering
mentioned planned parenthood for times and talked about are lifesaving work. but the interesting thing is that evening his message went beyond talking to dependence and the folks that were falling the back-and-forth of the political campaign. it actually reached millions of ordinary americans because just a few days later there was a woman that showed up at a planned parenthood health center in houston texas. i'm glad all of you are here today. [applause] so this is the story. had been years...
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haveepublicans seem to won because obama has caved in again. pain but theel the rich people do not, again. host: we have a couple of tweets. the first one comes from florida gordon -- we are talking about congress passing a bill to ease flight delays. our next call comes from marty in dayton, ohio. caller: i was under the impression that the house -- the flexibility to arrange the sequester as he needed to long ago before he shut down the white house for tours right over spring break when eighth eirders are coming for th spring trip, he closes the doors. it seems like he tried to target those services that would get .he biggest backlash host: thank you for your call. next up is brett in claremore, oklahoma on our line for independents. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think it is about time that the congress and the senate and everybody got together and did something that made some sense. ofefully this is the start -- they need to get together and fix the rest of things that are in lock-in in congress. host: assuming that this move is fa
haveepublicans seem to won because obama has caved in again. pain but theel the rich people do not, again. host: we have a couple of tweets. the first one comes from florida gordon -- we are talking about congress passing a bill to ease flight delays. our next call comes from marty in dayton, ohio. caller: i was under the impression that the house -- the flexibility to arrange the sequester as he needed to long ago before he shut down the white house for tours right over spring break when...
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this is something that the obama administration has been warning about for months and they're still talking about doing that at the pentagon and other key places. when you talk about areas where congress might want to step in, they might have concerns, that's another area. but i don't know that the furloughs are going to be sort of as alarming as the white house believes. there's a lot of individually people have concerns in those departments, but i think for the general public so far there hasn't been as big an outcry. >> you have to wonder, the sequester cuts that you mentioned from head start to meals on wheels and the others, are you getting any sense that if -- piecemeal if people start opposing those as vociferously as people did the air-traffic controller furloughs, might congress have to then come back and do these sort of band-aid fixes? >> well, you know, one of the reasons that a lot of the house democrats were upset with the legislation on friday was they say this is a band-aid and we should be doing big sweeping bills. i feel like the momentum will run out to keep doing each of
this is something that the obama administration has been warning about for months and they're still talking about doing that at the pentagon and other key places. when you talk about areas where congress might want to step in, they might have concerns, that's another area. but i don't know that the furloughs are going to be sort of as alarming as the white house believes. there's a lot of individually people have concerns in those departments, but i think for the general public so far there...
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this morning, the pressure president obama faces to act after u.s. intelligence reports syria likely used chemical weapons against its own people. >>> then we're going to tell you about a murder mystery involving an up and coming political fund-raiser. she was stabbed to death at her home. investigators say someone very close to her and her husband is to blame. >>> and on a much lighter note, it is prom season. in full swing at this point. you won't believe, though, what some teens and their parents are spending on the big night. i have sticker shock just from reading that script. i hope you're sitting down when we tell you the final tally a little bit later. >> remember what you spent? >> you know, i don't remember, probably around $100 on a dress. >> now it's upwards of $1,000, right? >> total, yes. >> plus a preview of tonight's white house correspondents dinner. >> kind of like a prom. >> we're spending a lot of money for that prom. >> kind of like a prom. we do begin this morning with the discovery of what appears to be landing gear from one of
this morning, the pressure president obama faces to act after u.s. intelligence reports syria likely used chemical weapons against its own people. >>> then we're going to tell you about a murder mystery involving an up and coming political fund-raiser. she was stabbed to death at her home. investigators say someone very close to her and her husband is to blame. >>> and on a much lighter note, it is prom season. in full swing at this point. you won't believe, though, what some...
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critics say president obama left them no other choice. >> the president was at one point given the option of being able to do what we're talking about right now across the board without having to do this piecemeal deal. he didn't want to take it. and he didn't want to take it because they wanted to have the tax increases across the board and not actually go through with the spending cuts. the problem is -- >>alisyn: the white house has been accused of playing politics and cherry-picking visible areas to make cuts forhe most impact. >> tell us about sports, clayton. >>clayton: it was day one of the nfl draft. it came and went without manti te'o or gino smith hearing their names called. they didn't wait too long. on day two, manti te'o was taken by the san diego chargers. they traded up to get him. i wonder if someone will let him now that the san diego chargers don't exist. sorry. the very next pick, the new york jets took quarterback gino smith. the move could spell the end of mark sanchez. >>alisyn: everybody just likes gino. >> a look at the forecast. >> a nice weekend finally temperatu
critics say president obama left them no other choice. >> the president was at one point given the option of being able to do what we're talking about right now across the board without having to do this piecemeal deal. he didn't want to take it. and he didn't want to take it because they wanted to have the tax increases across the board and not actually go through with the spending cuts. the problem is -- >>alisyn: the white house has been accused of playing politics and...
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during that search, reporters had a chance to talk to him. he said he had nothing to do with those ricin-laced letters that were sent to president obama and to members of congress. he said he was being framed, eventual essentially, by the first person arrested. here is what he had to say. >> i have nothing to do with those letters the person accused of sending those letters, her defense attorney or his defense attorney said -- steered them in my direction because i was probably an easy target. >> reporter: now we do know that dutschke is known to authorities, the mugshot we are showing you, craig is from a prior arrest. if convicted, he faces life in prison. these are very serious charges. white house officials tell me that president obama has been made aware of this arrest. at this point, they are not releasing any other reaction. this all started in the dates after the boston bombing. that is when these ricin-laced letters were intercepted at an offsite mail facility. so they never got close to president obama or to members of congress. obv
during that search, reporters had a chance to talk to him. he said he had nothing to do with those ricin-laced letters that were sent to president obama and to members of congress. he said he was being framed, eventual essentially, by the first person arrested. here is what he had to say. >> i have nothing to do with those letters the person accused of sending those letters, her defense attorney or his defense attorney said -- steered them in my direction because i was probably an easy...